Being seen in fiction is powerful. It eases the ways in which society tries to erase our differences or use them to destroy us. Being present in fiction as we really are, even in SF&F, pries open space for us in the real world. Better still is fiction where our visibility is a natural consequence of the…

Imagine that you have a positive experience with someone and feel good about it. Subsequently, you learn something new about them. What you learn has no reasonable impact on the potential consequences of the shared experience, except perhaps for the consequences that might arise from third parties learning this…